Tomb Raider Legend Timeline - The Complete Story - What You Need to Know! ft. Steve of Warr!
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Steve and I continue our journey through the ENTIRE Tomb Raider franchise, making a trip through the first Crystal Dynamics reboot series, starting with Tomb Raider Legend!
Video Chapters
0:00:00 Intro
0:00:51 Tomb Raider Anniversary (1945)
0:01:18 Tomb Raider Legend (1986)
0:02:05 Tomb Raider Legend (1995-ish)
0:03:13 Tomb Raider Anniversary (1996)
0:09:23 Tomb Raider Legend (2006)
0:19:00 Tomb Raider Underworld (2007)
0:29:19 Tomb Raider Underworld: Lara’s Shadow (2007)
0:30:02 Tomb Raider Underworld: Beneath the Ashes (2007)
0:30:19 Tomb Raider Underworld: Lara’s Shadow (2007)
0:31:22 Other Adventures (post-2007)
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You should cover the dragon age series !
Fallout
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“💥WHERE💥IS💥MY💥MOTHER!?” Is one of the best line deliverances in all of gaming history.
that's one of the reasons Legend is my favorite tomb raider game. the other 2 is the croft manor gameplay and all japan map (focus on perfect ost)
That last cutscene always gets me. Such a great deliverance
Nah. It's cool tho.
Legend was one of my childhood games. It feels great to watch a recap of the story of these games, and this was a very good recap!
I got introduced to Tomb Raider via Underworld and later played Legend as well. However, Anniversary wasn't really a game I liked as I could never make it past the dinosaurs!
It occurred to me after several years that the jar Natla is in is made so cold to stop her using her firebending.
Now that you’ve mentioned firebending, natla was voice by grey delisle the same VA for azula
I love that she gave the doppelganger freewill. Letting it finally live on its own
I will always feel that Underworld was what the original series was trying to be, grand, mysterious worlds, tons of exploration and a great story with great gameplay.
Whoever did the character design Lara was absolutely brilliant!
It's sexy but not straight up porno trashy, fashionable but not too over the top. I can respect what they were trying to do with her character back in the day.
She was never porno trashy. Some people just have a problem with female leads who happen to have a large bust size. Somehow having a smaller chest size became associated with female empowerment in the early 2010's, and so classic Lara became sexist. Which is dumb as hell.
Some of the design choices for her seemed a bit silly (CGI Lara in the first game especially) and the short shorts were better suited for hiking rather than spelunking...some of the story elements seemed a bit...uncomfortably or obnoxiously gratuitous... but fortunately those were brief and few. It's good that they never focused much of the dialogue on her appearance and kept it focused on the story despite some of marketing's decisions back in the 90's.
I'm more bothered by the changes to her personality over the years. The changes to her appearance are more of an annoyance due to the fact that it just seems like they had to tone her down as a whole in order to not offend certain audiences (girls that weren't gamers in the 90's who focused solely on her appearances) that felt she was nothing more than fanservice which put unhealthy expectations on young women by men.)
All they did was make Lara weaker as a character, which is pretty un-feminist and detracts from any sort of female empowerment she had going for her from the 90's if you ask me.
She was confident, intelligent, and strong-willed who happened to look like a model in terms of physique. She wasn't a bumbling second-wheel damsel trying to live up to someone else's expectations who couldn't follow through on anything or reluctantly doing so. She wasn't bogged down in pointless romance plots, and she never had to resort to exploiting sexuality to come out on top in a situation. And they just completely did away with all of that. It was stupid of them.
she's never been porno trashy to begin with
It’s literally the same design as the original with more polygons for a smoother more human look lol. If anything, it should be MORE “porno trashy” to you. Both were feminine James Bond in female form before Crystal Dynamics decided to ruin her to pander to whiny babies about her appearance with the newest reboot that stripped her both of her femininity and her boss personality.
Legend's outfit is just as skimpy as the classic outfit
Underwolrd's wetsuit is skimpier than the ones in TR2 & AOD
the LAU games had bonus bikinis that can be unlocked
“ WHERE IS MY MOTHER “ 😂😂😂
Well it's the best part
"WHERE... IS... MY... MOTHER!?" Lara asked calmly.
Why do the people in the comments call her Laura? I thought we were over that, 25 years ago.
As someone whos called Lara I appreciate this comment so much 😂
They fake fans
What's funny is that they changed her name from Laura to Lara in the original games development, because they thought people worldwide would have an easier time pronouncing it.
Shh. I call her loorah
@@jcage1022 lmao yeah 😭
Hard to believe it's been already... 16 years. I feel like it's been just 5 to 8 years since I was rocking Thailand or South Mexico, Peru, Bolivia.. Thanks for video. I feel older now 😁
I love the original games ans they do have a special place in my heart but I absolutely adore the legend series.
They were so good!
Same bro
I miss those games
Also Lara is such a queen🙄💅
Yeah...
She is a fucking crazy queen!!! How in the hell she stills alive after everything?!
That was so cringe bro tf
@@ArividerchiMagmuasue ew don’t talk to me
@@dead5101 can't play the same card I played, be more creative next time. Your cringey ass is the one talking like a teenage girl
@@ArividerchiMagmuasue very true
Anniversary was my first exposure to the Tomb Raider franchise. I didn't grow up with the originals (before my time) so this was where my interest in the series picked up, and I still have a soft spot for these games even now.
Hell, at the time I didn't even know Anniversary was a remake of an older game. I just thought it was its own thing.
Legit same scenario as you described here 😅. The legend trilogy will always hold a special place in my heart for this reason. Finishing the storyline, and realising that all those adventures where lara had been seeking out what happened to her mother, had all been for nought, was very soul crushing. And the feeling isn't redeemed by the further accruals of conquest and tomb raiding she conducts after the series, because it kind of loses meaning after that.
Basically we know that every tomb or cavern that Lara enters, collapses... lol
@Oh Ta I had to say it, because both videos use the term so many times 🤣
Lol, that didn't used to be the case, it used to be full of boobytraps, but since Uncharted basically set the adventure standards on gaming everything needs to cinematically collapse these days. Lol, not complaining though. The 2013 reboot was original and good. I just expected them to show Lara grow more towards the Lara we know from the original.
@@stijnvdv2 well, IMO the current trilogy serie should be divided by 6 games, each one with 2 years of distance from one another (in the story), because this could provide a time period based on the classic story line. In other words, six games, being the first the 2013 reboot, until get to Tomb Raider I (anniversary) and etc...
Just like Nathan Drake
This really is the best Lara and best story from the Tomb Raider franchise
The story is just one big, long excuse for itself.
I've only ever played through Anniversary, though didn't complete it. Some day I need to complete the first reboot trilogy. I stopped console gaming altogether for seven years due to boredom and a complete lack of interest.
I don't hate the newer games, but I hope that with the next Tomb Raider that they do that they listen to the fanbase rather than writing her to avoid criticisms of her being an "archaic heroine designed for men" and poor level design that strays so far from what made the franchise so wonderful when it first came out.
I think this is my favourite Lara voice and Underworld is my favourite Lara design. Games are way too easy though but still fun.
Legend is the better desgin in my opinion, lara is more realistic looking and her jumps and animation is PERFECT, in underworld not so much it seems more "game like"
Agree. Lara’s look in Tomb Raider Underworld is the best look of Lara Croft of the whole franchise! This opinion may be biased because I have huge nostalgia for that game but who cares 😉
Underworld has my favourite environments and story tbh
@@Gold26502 ppppp
Great video, would like to point out that the Croft Manor has books mentioning The Dagger of Xian, The Maria Doria, The Meteorites and Angkor Wat, implying that the flashback events of The Last Revelation happened in some way in this continuity besides her future plans regarding the other lost artifacts, so it's safe to assume the events of II and III also happened in between Anniversary and Legend.
Also connections between Legend and Anniversary, Amanda has crates that say "Natla Technologies" and Natla mentions while talking to Lara that it takes "three" to reign.
Anniversary is by far my favorite TR game, the best classic Tomb Raider experience. Always hoped they'd continue on with the same treatment for TR2, but no such luck.
I liked anniversary, but I really don't think it can be called a "classic" TR experience. Crystal Dynamics wanted to separate themselves from Core so much that they ended up making a completely different game.
It's a good game if you consideritby itself alone, but it's far off from being faithful to the original when compared imo.
i think the climb is kind janky in anniversary (only the ropes was a step forward in relation to legends imo) and there is only animals and dinosaur to kill in the whole game, its gets a little boring
@@johnbon7369 I actually think Anniversary improves on TR1 in almost every aspect. Take Midas' Palace, for example. The statue was a joke in TR1. You could only see the feet and one hand. In Anniversary they made the statue the center of the area and expanded on the side chambers with new and more interesting platforms.
I'd rather not learn that Lara's father made enemies of the Fiama Nera, thanks.
I think the Ducati product placement in Legend has something to do with the Angelina Jolie movies tie-in
I really enjoyed the previous one - had no idea how much of the story I’d missed with this series.
It’s really funny to me that like half of the games in the series end with “the villain offers Lara immortality and she refuses and kills them.”
I always thought Natla was a villain worth more than a single game. Not just cause she was the OG, but an ancient scheming being like that is just more. Also, her Hela inspired injured face was perfect for her return.
For me these three games are definitive Lara Croft, when I think of Lara this is the era that comes to mind. Lara herself is the perfect amount of sassy and empathetic, badass and emotional and just overall makes for a phenomenal main character. These games also gave us a great rendition of Natla and introduced us to the icon that is Amanda
Thank you for putting this for my birthday i need to learn history of tomb raider and this is what I need
Happy birthday!
@@SuggestiveGaming thanks
Underworld is my favorite Tomb Raider game, even though I'm terrified of spiders and sharks! It has the spirit of the old games but with better graphics. It's also very dark and I LOVE it!
I already somewhat know the story, it’s been 5 years since I played these 3 games, gotta freshen up my memory. Thanks dude
Really want these remastered for the next gen consoles I played legend more than I can count and grew up playing these
I adore this trilogy. Legend and AoD made me discover the Tomb Raider series and I love them.
The only thing that bugs me is Lara's age during Anniversary adventure: if we consider her birth year as 1977, then she would has been 19 when she was doing the Scion quest (which took place in 1996). Isn't she still young to look so experienced about exploring tombs and fighting?
Underworld .. i bought when i was 8 and finished when im 18 that is now .... 🙂
Love keeley voicing lara ,😍graphics and everything
Lara has more adventures then Nathen drake will ever have lol
Drake's adventures are much better written, though...
@@b.u.l.1734 fax💯👌
Keeley Hawes will forever be my favorite Lara!
This and underworld are my favourite tomb raider games. Please bring them to next gen consoles
Keeley Hawes is still my favourite Lara.
I really love this reboot saga. Legend was my first Tomb Raider. Brings back good memories.
My favorite timeline. Lara had to go through all the stages of grief and learn to accept her mother's death and realize it wasn't her fault.
So this version of Lara is less lethal than the original and knows remorse. I like that. 🙂
I don't wanna sound cliché, but Legends and Anniversary are my childhood games and somewhat my favorite iteration of Lara, as she's kinda like "The Lara" still, well at least for spin-offs and crossovers. But I really liked this video and I guess I will finally give Underworld a chance, I know that back in the day it feels underwhelming as it was like a glorified PS2 game compared to next gen games like Uncharted that were more technically impressive, and that of course the fanservice nature of the marketing and the wetsuit itself being the big white elephant in the room created a lot of backlash that diminished this particular release, but I still love me some Lara.
BTW I always liked how they played the killings in Anniversary and the impact they had in Lara and how she forged her character, that she knew when the world's fate is at chance she would need to defend herself and fight it off, because I still feel that Reboot Lara 8sna bit deranged ok that sense, it didn't help that the first impression you ha did the people of Yamatai is that they wanted to r*pe Lara makes it even more fucked up.
Random thought : I wish for a new Tomb Raider Novel, with Steve as book narrator. His voice has been one of my favorite aspects from his retrospectives
FR that's so annoying
I agree about Lara and Amanda, But I feel like Natla probably needed intense plastic surgery after swimming in lava and being crushed and blown up in a Pyramid so at least that makes sense
@@Gayforeplay hahaha omg yes, good point :D
I was waiting for Steve to mention Rutland’s lovely silk shirt 😂
15:25 that isn’t Arthur’s shield-it’s Lancelot’s.
I thought that TR7 and TR8 were continuing the story where Core design ended.
Since in TR8 Natla said: "I am very pleased to see you again Lara" assuming that they've met in TR1/ anniversary
Really late but no, Legend is an entirely separate timeline.
She has completely rewritten backstory (+parents names), different year of birth, mother/father death (Core Lara didn't went through being an orphan) and she's really different personality wise if you'll analyze her and compare to Core games.
Legend is closer to Core than Survivor but still not a carbon copy
@@Stacy-zr8qk The Legend timeline probably includes some version of the original five sequels, but the events may not have played out exactly as we saw them (especially in Chronicles). Whether they would occur in the gap between Anniversary and Legend or in the aftermath of Underworld is anyone's guess.
Underworld was actually my first Tomb Raider Game, I had the DS version, and I still have it, I think, but I did grow up waiting my Dad play the original games and I think that I might have played a little bit of Legend.
Awesome video, thanks again!!! 💗
7:19 "instantly feels regret for taking another life"
meanwhile current Lara casually killing hundreds of people making Rambo look like a boys scout who failed his merit badge test
tbf she did feel bad for like...one minute in the 2013 game 💀
@@wonwookisses That just made it feel weird to me. "Oh no, I killed that guy. I'll have to kill a few dozen more to help take my mind off of it!"
@@Mirthful_Midori it was a bit weird for sure lmaoo
Love the series
One of the best game trilogies ever made. Before they made 2013 Rise and Shadow I always said that this was the best Tomb Raider trilogy ever made. It still is a great Tomb Raider trilogy.
Your videos are like an art 💕🥰 Such a nostalgy
WILL FOREVER REMAIN THE BEST TRILOGY EVER.
Niflheim and Helheim are often interchangeable in Norse Mythology. sometimes they are the same realm, while in other stories they are entirely different with Helheim being the realm for the dishonored dead. Niflheim is often described is the realm of mist and frost.
With all the different iterations of Lara, it's pretty easy to have unchallenged headcanon that combines the three gens.
"you need thors hammer to get there, you´ll find your answers in thailand"
thats such an insane sentence 🤣
*Excellent video!*
Glad you liked it!
I was 1 when tomb raider came out and 11 when tomb raider legend came out. I watched my dad play the classic ones and I played the reboots. I love the music of all them
This was also a good listen!!
Hey, guys! Hats off to both of you! You both are huge inspirations for me when I make videos and I hope to one day be as amazing as you!!! It is my dream to one day meet you both and have a talk, so can you please fullfill this?
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@@SuperHitman55 You're a little late to the party, man. I wasn't aware of the scene with Lara's parents being alive at the time (assuming that's what you're referring to).
@@SuperHitman55 I mean, it's not exactly easy or feasible to keep up with all your comments from a year ago or more, but sure, I will edit this one.
My God, these games are more than 10 years old already. I enjoyed them so much, although it's not my favorite era.
Anniversary will always be my childhood. I want to replay all the 3 😁 I miss kara she's was fun
Am I the only one who thinks Underworld's yatch Is the same one she "stole" from Natla way back in TR 1?
Same bro
Survival Lara: Minecraft hunger games
Core Lara: Unlimited ammo cheat code
Legends Lara: I'm still worthy!
It was only unlimited in Last Revelation & Chronicles, 1-3 only gave a bunch of ammo
So we’re not going to talk about how there’s just a Laura Doppelganger running around after Natalie dies? Lol.
Anniversary is a great remake of the original.
This timeline and in particular the legend game.. doesn't get the credit it deserves. Without this trilogy tomb raider would have remained dead after AOD. Legend SAVED the series.
See, now I'm confused again. I was previously led to believe Anniversary was inbetween Legend and Underworld.... and I don't mean release date-wise.
Yeah it confused me back when they released the games, they were out of order but when they revealed that anniversary was before legend then it made sense to me, lack of gear she had in anniversary vs how much she had in legend, and in legend in the last level in Bolivia there were boxes that said Natla industries on them. And then of course you see natla in u Underworld.
Ooou now i reeeally wanna play these games. A Tomb Raider game that gives me the power of a God?! Hell yeah!
great video.
Legend is my favourite game by far
Thank youu💖
5:22 vision and that Google 🤣🤣🤣
4:29 Lara travels to Facebook 😂😂😂
I love your videos ❤
I never actually regarded the Legend series as a different timeline to be honest. It all pretty much works well together. But thank god the latest reboot series didn't taint the good games that came before.
Crystal has never wanted Legend to be associated with Core games, that's one of the reasons why LAU Lara has went through mother drama.
Which OG Core Lara hasn't experienced ofc
TRA retconned TR1's storyline to give Larson more screen time and Lara mommy issues
my god i love this trilogy so so much
Is it me or are all these games being recorded in the highest graphic preset or edited because I’ve never seen these games look this good?
The benefits of playing on pc!
Dad got the trilogy on ps3 and i loved it, best thing a 6 year old could play
I love the legend trilogy!
Oh I know everything about the original legend timeline of Tomb Raider, back then Lara Croft was a badass adventuer unlike the reboot version of today!
I was confused about Lara's father in this timeline. So, Natla asked him to find the Scion but he failed so she asked him to find Thor's hammer instead? Or is it one or the other? Weird
She could have asked him to find both of them, or even after he failed to find the Scion, but she didn't get rid of him because of how useful he was, so she asked him to find Thor's hammer instead, with the reasoning that even if he didn't find the items that she wanted him to find, she could still use any information that he gathered during his digs to make it easier for her hired help to find the items, or she could get other adventurers and archaeologists to find the items using the information that he had gathered.
We don't really get told if there is a time limit for the collection of these items, so it is possible that, after his failures, she could have waited until she had better technology, resources and techniques to use.
im actually on a tomb raider binge.
Makes me want to pick up the trilogy now
now that I finally finished Underworld I can now watch this but, boy, I really liked some aspects of Underworld but the story is really not one of them. Its like some weird fanfic and barely connects to Legend at all
legend was my first lara game i played as a kid, and i used to think alliser and james rutland (or however their names are spelled) were the same person and allister betrayed me 😭😭😭😭 remember going to the croft manor and shooting at him in the library i believe, and not understanding why hes still there if hes my mortal enemy. i cant breatheee, it was only when i replayed the game a bit older did i realise
Here's how I think about this. OG timeline is the OG timeline. The legend timeline is an alternate timeline where her parents were also explores.
Because of her drastic look change survivor timeline is her daughter either from the legend timeline or the OG timeline.
that some huge amount of luck finding the ghalali key after all those years.
Never notice how crazy these games are😂😂
Laras Shadow reminds me so much of Lara from Angel of Darkness
90's TRs were the ones that gave the unique feeling of "not being held by the hand while playing" and new techs ruined that. Crazy to say but... TR games should be like when Lara's squares world
I wish they’d continue the game starting after Underworld. The survivor series are great, but it kind of strips Lara of everything she ever was in a lot of ways.
I am a new subscriber🥰🥰🥰
Welcome!
This trilogy was my childhood. I have a question, what saw Lara in the mirror in Bolivia( as an adult) and Nepal ( as a child) ?
so
many
mercenaries!
Jak and Daxter story summary please!
Still like this trilogy, played the originals (up until 2 or 3)when they came out; but these were still thematically similar - but had adapted to modern control conceits; cant go back to the tank controls of the first ones now.
Naughty Dog obviously riffed on these for Uncharted, and the favour was returned for the survivor trilogy. I do wish they'd tone down the third person action-cover shooter and focus more on the large environmental puzzles tho.
18:28 yeah you got a like just for that
It was so frustrating that they never released the underworld DLC's on PC
More tomb raider
TR Legend Lara is how she should be
The best Lara ever ♥
I really wish they would’ve continued the Legend/Underworld timeline, it did so much right. The reboots after this weren’t nearly as good
thank God to Rick Dangerous ;)